For all make-up work, be sure to include DATE your making up, CLASS PERIOD, and your NAME!
MODULE #3 of QUARTER #3:
Fri 3/28
Mythbusters - Cooling a Six-pack, Ancient Battery
Use the Viewing Guide as a free make-up assignment
Wed 3/26 - Thu 3/27
Make-up: Get and complete the generator project
Complete packet using PhET Faraday simulator
Discovering how electricity is made in power plants
Mon 3/24 Make-up: Read 36.7 (p 729) and answer 3 questions (in file) Wires with current move compasses - can magnets move wires? Build your own electric motor Examples of things in our houses with motors CP Homework: List two things in your house that use electric motors. Explain why you believe each is turning electricity into motion.
Fri 3/21 Make-up: Read 36.4 (p 724-5) and answer 3 questions (in file) Review Right-hand rule for electromagnets OAS: Magnetic Express Magnetic fields - using iron dust to picture the fields Electric vs. Magnetic Fields battle royale
Tue 3/18 Make-up: Read section 36.5 (p 726-7) and answer 3 questions (in file) Can you turn a magnet off? Yes! If it's an electromagnet. Ferromagnetic - only a few substances react to a magnet Built our own electromagnets More loops or stronger battery = stronger magnet The right-hand rule tells you which end is north CP Homework: Right-hand rule practice (due 3/19)
Mon 3/17 Make-up: Read section 36.1 (p 721-2) and answer 3 questions (in file) Tried magnets with each other: dipoles and forces Compasses detect magnetic forces Current in a wire moves a compass?!? Not all metals attract a magnet! CP Homework: Electric vs. Magnetic Fields - one similarity and one difference (due 3/18)
Fri 3/14 Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/) Mythbusters on lightning strikes and tongue piercings
MODULE #2 of QUARTER #3:
Thu 3/13 CP Make-up work: 1 page of Circuit grids 6th hour make-up: See Wed 3/12 3rd & 4th hr: N/A -- Feed My Starving Children day --
Wed 3/12 Make-up: complete #1-6 of CD34-2 Practice P=I*V More circuit puzzles - predict, observe, explain CP homework - calculate current in the circuit described (due 3/13)
Tue 3/11 Make-up: Complete Electricity and Practical Math sheet for one appliance Added power to our concept sheet Calculated how much it would cost to run various appliances for a week CP homework: Complete calculations for one major appliance at home (due 3/12)
Thu 3/6 Make-up: Complete 3 pages of series and parallel simulator packet (in file) Review series and parallel Phet circuit simulator to build and test series and parallel circuits
Wed 3/5 Make-up: Read 35.3-4 and answer 3 questions (file) Open and closed for a cooling system How many bulbs can we light at once? Notes on series and parallel [CP - A visit to circuitopia]
Tue 3/4 Make-up: Read 35.1-2 and answer 3 questions (in file) Reviewing Ohm's Law How many ways can we make a light bulb light? Making flashlights Open vs. Closed for a circuit CP Homework: Explain why a bulb won't light with one wire to either side. (due 3/4)
Mon 3/3 Make-up: Read 34.5 and answer 3 questions (in file) Testing our bicycle predictions with real circuits Ohm's Law CP Homework: Use V=I*R. A circuit has 10 A of current and 100 ohms of resistance. What is the voltage? Show your work. (due 3/4)
Thu 2/27 Make-up: Do CD 34-1 page 1 (in file) Pumped water analogy CP Homework: Does voltage cause current or does current cause voltage? Defend your answer. (due 2/28)
Wed 2/26 Make-up work: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/ ) Mythbusters: Barrel of bricks, peeing on the third rail, eel skin wallets Test make-up day
Tue 2/25 Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to make up your test Unit test: Charges, charging, electric fields
Thu 2/20 Make-up work: Read section 34.2 and answer 3 questions (in file) Brainstorm what in the room uses electric current Defining terms: Charge, current, voltage Practice calculating current CP Homework: Write and solve your own I = q/t problem
Wed 2/19 Make-up work: Voltage = Electric Potential worksheet (in file) Weight and height affect gravity's potential Charge and Voltage affect electric potential Measuring battery voltage: bigger one's have same V? Comparing volts: van de graaff, balloon on hair, and outlet CP Homework: What is one similarity and one difference between electric and gravitational fields
Mon 2/17: President's Day -- NO SCHOOL! Fri 2/14 - Tue 2/18 Make-up work: Complete the PhET Electric Fields project at home or during lab time Electric potential vs. Gravitational potential OAS: Arc Attack Start work on the electric fields project
Thu 2/13 Make-up work: Read section 33.3 and answer questions (in file) Review electric field lines Experiment: Will a cell phone ring when it is covered in foil? Half way covered? A closed conductor shields the inside from outside electric fields Looking at coaxial cables and cars struck by lightning CP Homework: Read article on faraday cages and discuss how an elevator or a microwave oven can act as a faraday cage
Wed 2/12 Make-up work: Read Section 33.2 (p. 666-7) and answer questions (in file) Force fields - they are not just science fiction! Arrows show from - to + and closer together means stronger field Electric Field game and Electric Field Hockey CP Homework: (slip due 2/13) #21. In which diagram will the proton, P, feel the greatest net force? What direction?
Tue 2/11 Make-up work: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/ ) Mythbusters: Cell phone won't blow up a gas station, breast implants don't explode in air planes (No CP Homework)
Mon 2/10 Make-up work: CD32-2 worksheet in file Why does the pith ball go back and forth??? What is an electroscope and how does it work? Practice with inductance CP Homework: (due 2/11) Does an electroscope tell you whether a charge is positive or negative? Why or why not? (google "electroscope animation" for help)
Wed 2/5 Make-up work: Conductors allow charge to move freely: Movies show people getting electrocuted by being in water = good conductor The "smelly boat" analogy of how charges move on a conductor Building film cannister leyden jars CP Homework: Draw a diagram showing how charge distributes on a leyden jar (due 2/7)
Tue 2/4 Make-up work: Question sheet on conservation of charge (in file) and complete the first column Review types of charging - Friction = rubbing - Contact = touching / spark - Induction = rearranging John Travoltage simulator Practice questions on conservation and charging (OAS - cat with balloon) CP Homework: Do Either 39 or 41 from second column of practice sheet (due 2/5)
Mon 2/3 Make-up work: Get a copy of the balloon simulator questions (in file) and complete (need a computer that will run java) Places we've seen static charges Whiteboard questions about charged or neutral atoms Conservation of charge: electrons are just transferred Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction Practice with the sweater and balloon simulator CP Homework: Explain why a balloon with excess electrons can be attracted to a neutral wall. (due 2/4)
Fri 1/31 - College visitation field trip Make-up work:Read 32.1 and answer 3 questions on back (in file) Tug of war: electric vs gravitational force Review what an atom is like Try finding positive and negative charging by comparing things to a balloon rubbed with wool Opposites attract and like charges repel Mythbusters: Bucket of matchheads
Thu 1/30 Make-up work: N/A Get to Know You sheet or tell me a dis/like from Physics Favorites Go over points, expectations What's an atom like - video clip on problems with atom models Summarize what an atom is like
Quarter 3: Electricity and Magnetism
2013-14 School yearQuarter #3 Module #3: Tue 3/11 - Fri 3/28
Quarter #3 Module #2: Tue 2/18 - Mon 3/10
Quarter #3 Module #1: Mon 1/27 - Fri 2/14
Make-up work
For all make-up work, be sure to include DATE your making up, CLASS PERIOD, and your NAME!MODULE #3 of QUARTER #3:
Fri 3/28
Mythbusters - Cooling a Six-pack, Ancient Battery
Use the Viewing Guide as a free make-up assignment
Wed 3/26 - Thu 3/27
Make-up: Get and complete the generator project
Complete packet using PhET Faraday simulator
Discovering how electricity is made in power plants
Tues 3/25
Building Speakers
Mon 3/24
Make-up: Read 36.7 (p 729) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Wires with current move compasses - can magnets move wires?
Build your own electric motor
Examples of things in our houses with motors
CP Homework: List two things in your house that use electric motors. Explain why you believe each is turning electricity into motion.
Fri 3/21
Make-up: Read 36.4 (p 724-5) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Review Right-hand rule for electromagnets
OAS: Magnetic Express
Magnetic fields - using iron dust to picture the fields
Electric vs. Magnetic Fields battle royale
Thu 3/20
Test on Circuits and Magnets
Wed 3/19
Jeopardy Review of Circuits and Magnets
Tue 3/18
Make-up: Read section 36.5 (p 726-7) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Can you turn a magnet off? Yes! If it's an electromagnet.
Ferromagnetic - only a few substances react to a magnet
Built our own electromagnets
More loops or stronger battery = stronger magnet
The right-hand rule tells you which end is north
CP Homework: Right-hand rule practice (due 3/19)
Phys20140318.pdf
Mon 3/17
Make-up: Read section 36.1 (p 721-2) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Tried magnets with each other: dipoles and forces
Compasses detect magnetic forces
Current in a wire moves a compass?!?
Not all metals attract a magnet!
CP Homework: Electric vs. Magnetic Fields - one similarity and one difference (due 3/18)
Phys20140317.pdf
Fri 3/14
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters on lightning strikes and tongue piercings
MODULE #2 of QUARTER #3:
Thu 3/13
CP Make-up work: 1 page of Circuit grids
6th hour make-up: See Wed 3/12
3rd & 4th hr: N/A
-- Feed My Starving Children day --
Wed 3/12
Make-up: complete #1-6 of CD34-2
Practice P=I*V
More circuit puzzles - predict, observe, explain
CP homework - calculate current in the circuit described (due 3/13)
Tue 3/11
Make-up: Complete Electricity and Practical Math sheet for one appliance
Added power to our concept sheet
Calculated how much it would cost to run various appliances for a week
CP homework: Complete calculations for one major appliance at home (due 3/12)
Phys20140311.pdf
Mon 3/10
Make-up: General - complete Cafeteria sheet. CP - Use Phet simulator to complete 5 puzzles.
A visit to circuitopia - series vs parallel
Circuit puzzles: predict, observe, explain
CP homework: cafeteria questions slip (due 3/11)
Phys20140310.pdf
Fri 3/7
Staff Development day -- NO SCHOOL!!!
Thu 3/6
Make-up: Complete 3 pages of series and parallel simulator packet (in file)
Review series and parallel
Phet circuit simulator to build and test series and parallel circuits
Phys20140306.pdf
Wed 3/5
Make-up: Read 35.3-4 and answer 3 questions (file)
Open and closed for a cooling system
How many bulbs can we light at once?
Notes on series and parallel
[CP - A visit to circuitopia]
Phys20140305.pdf
Tue 3/4
Make-up: Read 35.1-2 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Reviewing Ohm's Law
How many ways can we make a light bulb light?
Making flashlights
Open vs. Closed for a circuit
CP Homework: Explain why a bulb won't light with one wire to either side. (due 3/4)
Phys20140304.pdf
Mon 3/3
Make-up: Read 34.5 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Testing our bicycle predictions with real circuits
Ohm's Law
CP Homework: Use V=I*R. A circuit has 10 A of current and 100 ohms of resistance. What is the voltage? Show your work. (due 3/4)
Phys20140303.pdf
Fri 2/28
Make-up: Read 34.4 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Defining resistance
The bicycle analogy
Making a prediction about circuits
Phys20140228.pdf
Thu 2/27
Make-up: Do CD 34-1 page 1 (in file)
Pumped water analogy
CP Homework: Does voltage cause current or does current cause voltage? Defend your answer. (due 2/28)
Phys20140227.pdf
Wed 2/26
Make-up work: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/ )
Mythbusters: Barrel of bricks, peeing on the third rail, eel skin wallets
Test make-up day
Tue 2/25
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to make up your test
Unit test: Charges, charging, electric fields
Mon 2/24
Jeopardy Review
Ch 32 and 33 Jeopardy2014.pptx
Ch 32 and 33 Jeopardy2014.pdf
MODULE #1 of QUARTER #3:
Fri 2/21
Snow storm = MAKE-UP DAY!!!
Thu 2/20
Make-up work: Read section 34.2 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Brainstorm what in the room uses electric current
Defining terms: Charge, current, voltage
Practice calculating current
CP Homework: Write and solve your own I = q/t problem
Phys20140220.pdf
Wed 2/19
Make-up work: Voltage = Electric Potential worksheet (in file)
Weight and height affect gravity's potential
Charge and Voltage affect electric potential
Measuring battery voltage: bigger one's have same V?
Comparing volts: van de graaff, balloon on hair, and outlet
CP Homework: What is one similarity and one difference between electric and gravitational fields
Phys20140219.pdf
Mon 2/17: President's Day -- NO SCHOOL!
Fri 2/14 - Tue 2/18
Make-up work: Complete the PhET Electric Fields project at home or during lab time
Electric potential vs. Gravitational potential
OAS: Arc Attack
Start work on the electric fields project
Phys20140214.pdf
Thu 2/13
Make-up work: Read section 33.3 and answer questions (in file)
Review electric field lines
Experiment: Will a cell phone ring when it is covered in foil? Half way covered?
A closed conductor shields the inside from outside electric fields
Looking at coaxial cables and cars struck by lightning
CP Homework: Read article on faraday cages and discuss how an elevator or a microwave oven can act as a faraday cage
Phys20140213.pdf
Wed 2/12
Make-up work: Read Section 33.2 (p. 666-7) and answer questions (in file)
Force fields - they are not just science fiction!
Arrows show from - to + and closer together means stronger field
Electric Field game and Electric Field Hockey
CP Homework: (slip due 2/13) #21. In which diagram will the proton, P, feel the greatest net force? What direction?
Phys20140212.pdf
Tue 2/11
Make-up work: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/ )
Mythbusters: Cell phone won't blow up a gas station, breast implants don't explode in air planes
(No CP Homework)
Phys20140211.pdf
Mon 2/10
Make-up work: CD32-2 worksheet in file
Why does the pith ball go back and forth???
What is an electroscope and how does it work?
Practice with inductance
CP Homework: (due 2/11) Does an electroscope tell you whether a charge is positive or negative? Why or why not? (google "electroscope animation" for help)
Phys20140210.pdf
Fri 2/7
Make-up work: Schedule a time with Leslie to do the lab
Review conductors and insulators
Follow the electrons lab
Phys20140207.pdf
Thu 2/6
LATE START DAY
Time to do make-up work
Wed 2/5
Make-up work:
Conductors allow charge to move freely: Movies show people getting electrocuted by being in water = good conductor
The "smelly boat" analogy of how charges move on a conductor
Building film cannister leyden jars
CP Homework: Draw a diagram showing how charge distributes on a leyden jar (due 2/7)
Phys20140205.pdf
Tue 2/4
Make-up work: Question sheet on conservation of charge (in file) and complete the first column
Review types of charging
- Friction = rubbing
- Contact = touching / spark
- Induction = rearranging
John Travoltage simulator
Practice questions on conservation and charging
(OAS - cat with balloon)
CP Homework: Do Either 39 or 41 from second column of practice sheet (due 2/5)
Phys20140204.pdf
Mon 2/3
Make-up work: Get a copy of the balloon simulator questions (in file) and complete (need a computer that will run java)
Places we've seen static charges
Whiteboard questions about charged or neutral atoms
Conservation of charge: electrons are just transferred
Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction
Practice with the sweater and balloon simulator
CP Homework: Explain why a balloon with excess electrons can be attracted to a neutral wall. (due 2/4)
Phys20140203.pdf
Fri 1/31 - College visitation field trip
Make-up work:Read 32.1 and answer 3 questions on back (in file)
Tug of war: electric vs gravitational force
Review what an atom is like
Try finding positive and negative charging by comparing things to a balloon rubbed with wool
Opposites attract and like charges repel
Mythbusters: Bucket of matchheads
Phys20140131.pdf
Thu 1/30
Make-up work: N/A
Get to Know You sheet or tell me a dis/like from Physics
Favorites
Go over points, expectations
What's an atom like - video clip on problems with atom models
Summarize what an atom is like
Phys20140130.pdf
Mon 1/27, Tue 1/28 & Wed 1/29
COLD WEATHER: NO SCHOOL